“Aiden,” she panted, terrified of her response to him, fightingherself and the needs washing over her.
“I bet you taste as good as you feel,” he whispered. “And you feel damned good, baby.Too damned
good. And you’re too f**king weak for what I need right now.”
He slid back slowly, ignoring her whimper, the arch of her hips.
“Aiden.”She licked her lips, fighting the plea her body was screaming out to her. He was breathing hard. Almost as hard as she was as he watched her closely, his eyes darkening with whatever thoughts were running through his mind.
“Rest,” he growled.“Fucking rest, Charity, before I take you and hurt you worse than you already are.”
Chapter Nine
Aiden slammed out of the cabin, the need for sleep so overwhelmed by the need to f**k that he had to get away from her. He snorted, if only the need to f**k was what drove him, he thought as he plopped down on the steps and laced his boots on his feet.
He pushed his fingers restlessly through his hair as he tried to make sense of the impulses flowing through his brain. Damn, she was going to make him crazy.Just as crazy as he had been in the Labs after her arrival. Her scent had nearly taken him to his knees the first time she had walked into the room. The subtle, irresistible draw of her body had been almost more than he could bear. He stared at the ground, sighing roughly. After the night spent roaming the mountains around the compound trying to track whoever or whatever had been outside the wall, he was exhausted. And it wasn’t helping that his temper seemed so blasted iffy either. He was completely unsettled and he didn’t care much for the feeling.
The woman was bewitching him. What the hell was wrong with him? She looked at him with those big hurt eyes, so filled with arousal anda deceptive warmth, and something inside him wanted to melt. It was inconvenient was what it was.
He lifted his head and stared off into the distance, wondering at the changes that were occurring too quickly around him.The changes within himself. He couldn’t seem to make sense of it, and he’d be damned if he would go to Jacob and ask him anything about it. The other man watched him with such amusement now that it made his hackles rise instantly. But overriding it all was his need for Charity.The complete, compelling, unquenched need to f**k her as hard and as fast as he could drive his c**k into her.
He gritted his teeth, standing almost painfully to his feet. That fickle flesh throbbed beneath the fly of his jeans with a demand that was damned near impossible to deny. As he started to stalk from the porch steps, the door to the cabin was flung open.
He turned, facing Charity warily as she stood there dressed in nothing but one of his T-shirts. And her
nipples were hard. And he could smell her heat. And by God, she was his mate. He had waited six f**king years to touch her, to slake the need that never seemed to leave his body, and he was tired of waiting.
She opened her mouth to speak, then her eyes widened slowly as his narrowed. He stepped back to the rough plank porch, advancing on her as she watched him carefully. Her lips opened as she drew in a rough breath. Her br**sts rose and fell quickly against the material of her borrowed shirt and the smell of her heat wrapped around him, tightening his cock, tensing his body with the unadulterated need to f**k.
“Go inside,” he growled. “Leave the door closed. Don’t step outside. Don’t push me, don’t berate me, Charity. I am one inch from pushing you against the damned wall and f**king you until we both collapse in exhaustion. I don’t think you want that right now.”
Her face flushed, her eyes darkening with arousal and fear. More arousal, though, than fear. Damn, she was killing him. A second ticked by, then another as her eyes slowly narrowed on him and anger replaced the fear.
“Aiden,” she drawled mockingly as she leaned against the doorframe. “Is it a burden being such a prick or does it just come easy for you?”
He breathed in carefully, forcibly restraining himself to keep from touching her. From jerkingher into his arms and pushing himself inside her tight, hot pu**y he knew was waiting for him.
“Actually,” he snarled. “It comes real f**king easy.”
She sighed regretfully as she shook her head slowly. “I was afraid of that. Oh well…”
He moved in on her before she could finish, backing her into the house, then against the wall of the foyer. She stared up at him in surprise, fighting the arousal that sang through her blood as his dominance reflected in the savage features of his face. The Native American cast to his features had always enthralled her, now more so than ever.
“Charity,” his voice was a hard, rumbling growl. “You can only push me so far. You can only deny me so long. Combine the two, and your time will shorten immeasurably. Do you understand me?”
She looked up at him through her lashes, her lips quirking teasingly, mockingly. “Beg me, baby, and we’ll see.” She threw his words back at him.
His fists clenched. If he touched her, he knew he would never release her. It wouldn’t matter if she cried. It wouldn’t matter if he hurt her. Some instinctive, primal need howled out its demand, making his body tremble as he fought to deny it.Just a while longer.Just until she was healed. Just until he knew he wouldn’t physically hurt her.
“You are playing a very dangerous game,” he breathed in roughly as he jerked back from her. “Be careful, Charity, that it doesn’t backfire on you.”
He stomped to the door once again.
“Will you be back for dinner, darlin’?” she asked him mockingly, stopping him in his tracks. His chest seemed clenched, something inside him screaming out for a tender voice, gentle words. He was a fool and he knew it.
He looked back at her, smiling slowly, confidently, his eyes going first to her hard-tipped br**sts then to her seductive gaze. He watched her smile dim as her gaze dropped to the near lethal canines.
“I guess, mate,” he growled. “It’s all according to what you can come up with for dessert.”